Collection Items

  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-02-25, no. 1]
    Inventory title: All American news 13 | Inventory title: All American news XIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about Adam Clayton Powell speaking at Freedom Day celebration, commemorating the 13th Amendment to…
    • Contributor: Alexander, William D. - Barnett, Claude - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.) - All American News, Inc
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 2]
    Inventory title: All American news 13 | Inventory title: All American news XIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about women making munitions in the Washington Navy Yard, Adam Clayton Powell addressing a…
    • Contributor: Alexander, William D. - Barnett, Claude - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.) - All American News, Inc
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 3]
    Inventory title: All American news 8 | Inventory title: All American news VIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about women working at a machine shop, and a Big 10 track meet.
    • Contributor: Alexander, William D. - Barnett, Claude - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.) - All American News, Inc
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-04, no. 4]
    Inventory title: All American news 10 | Inventory title: All American news X
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, California, the funeral…
    • Contributor: Alexander, William D. - Barnett, Claude - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.) - All American News, Inc
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    A time for freedom This documentary features footage from the "Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom," a civil rights demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957. It also includes interviews with attendees, and scenes from the Montgomery bus boycott, Harlem, New York, and segregated areas in the South.
    • Contributor: Jackson, Mahalia - Lawson, Peggy - Silk, Lawrence - Counts, Dorothy - Lerner, Gerda - Robinson, Cleveland L. (Cleveland Lowellyn) - Rustin, Bayard - Lerner, Carl - Rahn, Muriel - Diggs, Charles C. ... Jackson, Mahalia - Lawson, Peggy - Silk, Lawrence - Counts, Dorothy - Lerner, Gerda - Robinson, Cleveland L. (Cleveland Lowellyn) - Rustin, Bayard - Lerner, Carl - Rahn, Muriel - Diggs, Charles C. - Eckford, Elizabeth - Randolph, A. Philip (ASA Philip) - Belafonte, Harry - Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt) - Shuttlesworth, Fred L. - Powell, Adam Clayton - Kilgore, Thomas - King, Martin Luther - Perry, Milton - Wilkins, Roy - Parks, Rosa
    • Date: 1957